Asshole: Trump Withholds Flood Relief Funds from Michigan Because of Fake News Story (like when he attacked Syria and they shot the missiles down)

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Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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Daily Beast: People in Michigan are facing historic floods on top of the coronavirus pandemic—but, rather than offering some help, President Trump has threatened to make things even harder. After an apparent misunderstanding, Trump has threatened to withhold unspecified funding from the state because, he said, it mailed out millions of absentee ballots for the upcoming primaries and presidential election.

But that’s not the case—state officials said Tuesday that all registered voters will receive applications for absentee ballots to give them the choice to take part in elections without the risk of infection by the deadly virus.

Trump has, knowingly or not, misunderstood that important distinction. The president wrote Wednesday morning: “Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!”



Trump drew a quick response and correction from Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state: “Hi! I also have a name, it’s Jocelyn Benson. And we sent applications, not ballots. Just like my GOP colleagues in Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-threatens-to-keep-money-from-flood-and-virus-hit-michigan-after-apparently-misreading-news-reports

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  2. He also issued a hard stop for Guard deployments at 1 day before the early deployed would reach the 90 day mark for federal benefits. That one was puzzling because there was actually a decent base for him in the guard, maybe not a majority, but some support.
    Dude is just flailing , because if the voting did go to mail in, he would lose by 50 %. or more.
    The 47 % who did not participate last time, would decrease if mail in ballots were made possible or more available. The republican savior is about to lose them the senate majority.

  3. Those dams look to be hydroelectric generating stations, in which case I’d ask where is FERC to be heard on this, but, of course, its chairman is a Trump appointee. This is hideous; politicizing disaster relief, and one can surmise it was done because of “that woman in Michigan”. Hopefully, in six months or less, this guy is gone.

  4. the lawyers during the impeachment hearings used this exact scenario as an example of what was to come !

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